PRAGUE, Czech Republic (ABP)—Trustees of the International Baptist Theological Seminary—one of the earliest casualties of the theological dispute in the Southern Baptist Convention and among the first causes adopted by moderate Baptists in the Mid-Atlantic—have proposed relocating the seminary from…
Mid-Atlantic relief groups ready to respond to Isaac
RICHMOND—Baptist disaster relief organizations in the Mid-Atlantic were poised to respond Aug. 29 as flooding from Hurricane Isaac inundated wide sections of every Gulf Coast state. Relief organizers in Virginia, North Carolina and the District of Columbia said no teams…
OPINION: Know thyself—An ancient-future challenge to churches
‘Know thyself.” This popular saying of the ancient world has been attributed to many Greek philosophers, including Socrates à la Plato and was inscribed on the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Probably a common proverb used for various reasons and…
Task group studies Calvinism in SBC
By Bob Allen A 16-member advisory team is meeting Aug. 29-30 in Nashville, Tenn., to help the president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee draft a strategic plan to bridge a growing divide over Calvinism in the nation’s second-largest…
Calvinism advisory team meeting this week
By Bob Allen A 16-member advisory team is meeting Aug. 29-30 in Nashville, Tenn., to help the president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee draft a strategic plan to bridge a growing divide over Calvinism in the nation’s second-largest…
Calvinism advisory team meeting this week
By Bob Allen A 16-member advisory team is meeting Aug. 29-30 in Nashville, Tenn., to help the president of the Southern Baptist Convention Executive Committee draft a strategic plan to bridge a growing divide over Calvinism in the nation’s second-largest…
VITAL SIGNS: When the cavalry doesn’t come
The seasoned minister was addressing a group of young clergy and talking about some of the lessons learned on the job. You know, the ones you can’t learn in graduate school or from a book. These are the ones that…
At MC2, volunteers staff more than 30 mission sites
LYNCHBURG, Va.—The Network House, a safe place for abused women and children, is just one of the mission sites where volunteers served July 23-27 during MC2, an annual mission event sponsored by the Virginia Baptist Mission Board at Eagle Eyrie…
Mobile grocery diminishes impact of ‘food deserts’
RICHMOND—Residents of a low-income neighborhood on Richmond’s Northside, where full-service grocery stores are rare, are getting access to nutritious food, thanks to a Baptist project that aims to reduce the impact of “food deserts” sprinkled across the city and much…
Pastor: Turn the light on sexual abuse
By Bob Allen A Texas Baptist pastor urged his congregation to shine a light on sexual abuse, which he says occurs much more frequently than most people believe, even in churches. Gary Morgan, pastor of Cowboy Church of Ellis County…
Baptists rally support for Senate candidate
By Bob Allen A Baptist state newspaper editor, reported last week to the IRS for possibly violating federal tax law that bans nonprofit charities from endorsing candidates, convened a conference call Aug. 24 in which former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee…
Missionaries urge shift in orphan care
By Jeff Brumley After a mission trip to Ethiopia in 2007, a group of Baptist pastors from East Texas launched a multi-church mission effort dedicated to everything from digging wells and latrines to working in schools and churches to train…